Wednesday "at high noon," the Tea Party's motley true believers, Michele Bachmann, who resigned from Congress as part of a deal to avoid fraud charges, Steve King and Ted Cruz, called for a massive demonstration in Washington against King Obama's amnesty argle bargle. Bachmann on the TV channel of systemic racism, Fox News: "I'm calling on your viewers to come to DC on Wednesday, December 3, at high noon on the west steps of the Capitol. We need to have a rally, and we need to go visit our senators and visit our congressman, because nothing frightens a congressman like the whites of his constituents' eyes. ... We need the viewers to come and help us." She was backed up by one of the more virulently racist of the Tea Party groups, the Tea Party Patriots, which contacted all their members, urging them to come to Bachmann's rally. 40 people showed up, many in tricorner hats.President Obama asked the Republicans to stop whining and bitching about his temporary executive actions and pass some legislation addressing the country's dysfunctional immigration situation. Congress' worst racists want to shut the government down instead to make a statement about how much they hate people of color. Others-- some say the less extreme House Republicanos-- want to pass deranged bill by right-wing freak Ted Yoho to deport 11 million of immigrants.
Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and the House GOP were hoping that their members, angry at President Obama for stepping up and taking executive action on immigration, would be placated by a bill drafted by Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) that would prevent executive action on immigration and put just about all 11 million undocumented immigrants in America at risk of deportation. This after more than a year and a half of refusing to allow a vote on a popular immigration reform overhaul package that has enough votes to pass the House. As the Washington Post explains, Speaker Boehner “would first allow a vote this week on a bill to ban Obama from changing immigration laws. The largely symbolic legislation would be quickly discarded by the Democratic-controlled Senate, but the vote would be seen as a victory by some tea party conservatives.”The second part of Boehner’s immigration response involved funding the federal government through next fall, with the exception of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and immigration agencies, which would only be funded through early 2015, at which point Republicans would stage yet another fight over immigration against the backdrop of a manufactured government funding crisis.Yet the hardcore anti-immigrant wing of the Republican Party-- which has been the tail wagging the GOP dog for years-- is not satisfied with the idea of a vote against the President now followed by a showdown in March. They want the showdown now, even if it means a government shutdown.
Just as Bachmann's 40 person mass rally was about to start, Politico published a piece about the Hell No caucus of racists and extremists who will settle for nothing less than mass deportations-- rounding people up, parents of American-born citizens for example, and dragging them back over the border. You almost feel sorry for Boehner... until you realize he brought all this hatred and psychosis on himself as part of a conscious electoral strategy too motivate the most primitive segments of the American public to vote for Republicans.
“I think a lot of us, in discussion, we don’t see the purpose of having a long CR. Why not do it the first day we’re in session?” said Rep. John Fleming (R-La.) “I’m not sure it’s going to pass the way they are proposing it. I think it’s likely they are going to have to improve it if they want it to pass.”These conservatives estimate the number of Republican “no” votes to be near 30 to 40-- enough to derail a vote on the government funding bill if Democrats oppose the measure.Senate conservatives are beginning to badger House leaders over their plan to fund the government and symbolically disapprove of the president’s immigration action. GOP Sens. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, David Vitter of Louisiana and Mike Lee of Utah all began to blast the House GOP leadership’s plan on Tuesday afternoon, arguing that the House needs to block funding for implementation of Obama’s executive action now, not later.Lee laid out a detailed road map to taking on the executive action in a statement to Breitbart News, arguing for a short-term continuing resolution that blocks funding for the executive action-- the opposite of what Republican leaders in both chambers want.
Meanwhile, the rally was down-graded to a public press conference, which began with a sort of hate-filled prayer to whatever deity these anti-Jesus lunatics worship: "Our enemies seek to devour us," moaned their shaman. "We are rapidly becoming a lawless nation... Why should we expect an Illegal President to enforce 'Legal' Immigration??!"Some nut dressed, incongruously, for an 18th Century confrontation with archetypical conservatives-- the British monarchy started screaming "Down with the King."Ted Cruz took the mic and claimed Obama's executive immigration action is a "constitutional crisis," although all Obama did was extend temporary status to immigrants not unlike what allowed Cruz's own fascist father to remain in the U.S. Could a future Republican president, demanded Cruz, say we are using prosecutorial discretion not to collect capital gains taxes? Several of his Texas colleagues were also eager to chime in. The crackpot congressman from Rand Paul's old district around Galveston and Beaumont, Randy Weber, tried to stimulate the crowd by asking if they could say "dictator"? No reason, he groused, we should be voting for any part of a budget that funds his illegal actions.Cruz, titillating Hate Talk Radio zombies: "We are facing a full-fledged constitutional crisis. We fought a bloody revolution to free ourselves from the control of monarchs."One of Boehner's lieutenants, Renee Ellmers, went on CNN to call out Cruz's deranged extremism. "Senator Cruz needs to stay in the Senate. I think Senator Cruz wants to fan the flames here, but I think everyone here has become more savvy to his ways."Not in the crowd Wednesday: another Texan, Larry McQuilliams (pictured above in his finest teabagger regalia), who was shot by police in Austin on Friday after he went on a shooting spree. Am I saying that Ted Cruz, Steve King, Michele Bachmann and Randy Weber are the same kind of garbage as McQuilliams? Of course I am, just not as able to monetize the inner demons they all share. Just read this:
McQuilliams, who Austin Police officials called a “homegrown American extremist” with ties to a Christian identity hate group, was shot dead on Friday by a police officer outside the department’s headquarters.Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo told reporters on Monday that officers who searched the gunman’s home found a map with 34 targets, including two churches. McQuilliams had fired bullets into Austin police headquarters, a federal courthouse and the Mexican consulate in downtown Austin on Friday. He also tried to set the Mexican consulate building on fire.Previously, police said they had not yet determined the motive for the shooting, which left only the gunman dead, but speculated that the current immigration debate could have been a factor. On Monday, federal investigators said the gunman didn’t leave a note that outlined his motive, but that he had previously told friends he was upset he couldn’t find a job, even as immigrants to the United States receive assistance.On his bed, the gunman left a note and laid out clothes, officials said. A note left behind said the outfit was for his funeral.“Hate was in his heart,” Acevedo said.Police believe McQuilliams associated himself with the Phineas Priesthood, an anti-Semitic, anti-multiculturalism affiliation that opposes biracial relationships, same-sex marriage, taxation and abortion. Authorities found a copy of “Vigilantes of Christendom,” a book linked to the Priesthood, in the rental van McQuilliams used during the attacks. Inside of the book was a handwritten note that “discusses his rank as a priest in his fight against anti-God people,” Acevedo said.“If you look at what he did, he terrorized a city, he’s just an American terrorist trying to terrorize our people,” Acevedo said....Among other things investigators need to determine: How McQuilliams got his weapons. He had been arrested in 1998 for driving under the influence and in 1992 for aggravated robbery, Acevedo said. He also served time in prison for a bank robbery.Phineas Priesthood affiliates were tied to a string of 1996 bank robberies and bombings in the state of Washington.Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center, told The Post that the Phineas Priesthood is a “concept” that originated with “Vigilantes of Christendom,” which came out in 1990. The group takes its name from a story about the biblical figure of Phineas in the book of Numbers.In the story, Phineas slays an Israelite man and a Midianite woman who were together in a tent. “To the extreme right, this [story] is a biblical injunction against race mixing,” Potok said. Phineas Priests would also use the passage to justify violent acts in the name of their beliefs. “It’s very much a self-calling,” Potok said of those who would identify as Phineas Priesthood members. “If you commit a Phineas act…you can be considered a Phineas priest.”In a backgrounder, the Anti-defamation league wrote that “the Phineas Priesthood is not a membership organization in the traditional sense: there are no meetings, rallies or newsletters.” The ADL added that “extremists become ‘members’ when they commit ‘Phineas acts:’ any violent activity against ‘non-whites.’” Potok noted that the affiliation does not have a national structure.There is no organization that would determine whether one is a “member” of the group or not. Its affiliates, like McQuilliams, would be self-designated.Its members identify themseves as Christians, however, “they are really not Christians in any sense that a christian would accept,” Potok added. Most mainstream American Christians, he said, would find a Phineas Priest’s reading of scripture to be “heretical.”
I wonder if Texas will ever get sick enough of people like this to stop electing them to public office. It guarantees that none of this kind of stuff will ever be seriously addressed by the rabble Texas' Establishment so fears:
